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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager".

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Great blog! Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. No more, no less. Good stuff.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

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Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Ive written about it on our development blog at [link] October 6, 2008 3:34 PM Chris Hondl said. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

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There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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Embrace technical debt

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Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. But this blog put into better perspective. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. July 30, 2009 1:29 PM jkorotney said.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

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Answering that question is what Im striving to do on this blog (and at future webcasts and workshops ). Loved your W2E talk and included it in my Girls in Tech blog as the #1 session at W2E! Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. No engineering team. Thanks for sharing Eric.